Getting Older Quotes

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”
― George Carlin

“Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of
Especially when the entire race is in it together
Although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older
Because it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.”
― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

“So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.”
― Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
― Núria Añó

“His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”
― Noel Gallagher

“A woman sat alone at her dining table, reading and drinking a cocktail. It’d be such a relief to be older already, unburdened by the pressure to leverage your ever-fleeting beauty for whatever.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series: Books 4-6

“All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Besides,’ continued Julian, ‘you can slam down a phone like that. You can’t slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who’ll never know the joy of slamming down a phone.”
― Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project

“Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts.”
― Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

“Getting older happens suddenly. It's like swimming out to sea and realising that the shore you're making for isn't the shore where you started out.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“It was in the realm of his humor, and Carney had doubtless laughed. You get older and the old jokes grow less funny.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“Becoming older didn’t sadden me. The realization that time actually moves made me sad. Years go by and moments become older. Distance becomes longer. Moments which were yesterday suddenly span decades. I don’t miss myself as a child. I miss the moments in my childhood which founded the person I am today. Curiosity, conversations, touch, and hurt - those are things I miss. Those are things which made me who I am.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“She didn't mind being older, she just wished her bones hadn't aged faster than the rest of her. Somewhere in her early thirties, her hips had decided they belonged to a much older body.”
― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart

“I am far too advanced in years to cast off my clothes and dance in a fountain,' Vivian said. 'My body is a temple that my lovers may only worship at my candlelight.”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“An age is just an indication that there's more to be done.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“You love old stories because you gave up making new stories.”
― Sharky Rich

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what they say. I hum my songs and march ahead.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The world moved on, with or without you.
The songs you grew up listening to became classics and then, before you knew it, those songs were replaced by other songs that didn’t come out until after you graduated college. Eventually those would be replaced, too. Everything was replaced.”
― Max Booth III

“В края на листа има кратък текст: „Порастването винаги боли... стигналите до ръба на детството са благословени и обречени… защото след дванайсет следва безкрайност...”
― Кристина Терзийска, "Слънчогледови деца"

“So I'm only ten, she thought to herself. And then she imagined her future self, a middle-school Vera, a high-school Vera, a college Vera, a girlfriend Vera, a woman-in-STEM Vera, a mommy Vera, all looking back at this ten-year-old present-day, present-second Vera with all the pity and wonder and faith that older people needed to just get through the rest of their lives.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Vera, or Faith

“We’re no longer knocking on heaven’s door; we’ve reached the age where we’ve had keys cut.”
― Meg Marlow, Grumpy & Me: From 9-to-5 to 24-7. The Unofficial Guide to Marriage in Retirement